Category Archives: Thriller
Escape Plan 2: Hades
Release 2018
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Director: Steven C. Miller
Writers: Miles Chapman
Stars: Dave Bautista, Baylee Curran, Sylvester Stallone
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6513656/
Sequel to the 2013 film that featured a security expert named Ray Breslin, who used his skills to test out the reliability of maximum security prisons.
Acrimony
Release 2018
Genre Thriller
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Director: Tyler Perry
Writer: Tyler Perry
Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Lyriq Bent, Crystle Stewart
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6063050/
A faithful wife, tired of standing by her devious husband, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed.
7 Days in Entebbe
Release 2018
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Director: José Padilha
Writers: Gregory Burke
Stars: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5466186/
Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted.
Beyond The Sky
Release 2016
Genre Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Fulvio Sestito
Writers: Rebecca Berrih
Stars: Peter Stormare, Jordan Hinson, Dee Wallace
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3665498/
While shooting a documentary to expose the lies of alien abductees, a provocative filmmaker and his crew encounter a young woman with a dark secret who leads them to uncover a disturbing truth.
Corbin Nash
Release 2018
Genre Action, Horror, Thriller
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Director: Ben Jagger
Writers: Ben Jagger, Dean S. Jagger, Christopher P. Taylor
Stars: Corey Feldman, Malcolm McDowell, Rutger Hauer
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2948160/
A rogue police detective in search of his parents killer is murdered and reborn the ultimate killer.
Tomb Raider
Release 2018
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Roar Uthaug
Writers: Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Alastair Siddons, Evan Daugherty
Stars: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1365519/
Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she discovers the island where her father disappeared.
Unsane
Release 2018
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Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: Jonathan Bernstein, James Greer
Stars: Joshua Leonard, Claire Foy, Sarah Stiles
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7153766/
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear--but is it real or a product of her delusion?
Hunting Emma
Release 2017
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Director: Byron Davis
Writers: Deon Meyer
Stars: Bouwer Bosch, Leandie du Randt, Luan Jacobs
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6523174/
Gentle, beautiful, pacifist Emma witnesses a murder in the wild. Six violent men killing a cop in cold blood. So, they hunt her like an animal in the desolate Karoo. She should have been easy prey. But life is full of surprises
Thoroughbreds
Release 2017
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Director: Cory Finley
Writer: Cory Finley
Stars: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5649108/
Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.
Dark Crimes
Release 2016
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Director: Alexandros Avranas
Writers: Jeremy Brock, David Grann
Stars: Jim Carrey, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1901024/
A murder investigation of a slain business man turns to clues found in an author's book about an eerily similar crime. Based on the 2008 article "True Crimes - A postmodern murder mystery" by David Grann.